Japanese police on Saturday arrested Mark Karpelès, the head of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, alleging that he manipulated the company's computer system to increase the balance in an account. Tokyo-based Mt. Gox...

7 Days is a weekly round-up of Neowin editors' picks of what's been happening in the world of technology. Below is a especially edited version for TechSpot readers from the full article - written with a dash of humor, a…

Electronic Arts, creators of The Sims, the Mass Effect franchise, several EA Sports titles and the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront video game, are now making most of their money from game add-ons and digital gaming services. Online video game services…

This week has been absolutely massive for Microsoft, with the company releasing Windows 10 to the public earlier this week. In just 24 hours, the OS has been installed on over 14 million devices, with more to come as Microsoft…

Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has issued a security bulletin regarding a vulnerability found in many BIOS firmware implementations. If exploited, an attacker would have the ability to flash your motherboard’s BIOS.

San Bernadino County officials are offering a total of $75,000 for information leading to the capture of drone pilots who obstructed firefighters as they worked to extinguish forest fires in three separate incidents. The unmanned crafts forced responders to ground…

Nvidia on Friday announced it is recalling select Shield Tablets due to a potential fire hazard. The company has issued instructions on how to determine if your slate is impacted by the recall and the steps you should take if…

The latest research from Strategy Analytics has revealed that Huawei has overtaken Microsoft to become the world's third largest mobile phone vendor. The news isn't great for Microsoft's phone division, which has been conceding market share since the company acquired…

Uber is set to invest $1 billion in India over the next six months as the ride-hailing company targets to hit 1 million trips per day by March 2016. The firm wants to use the money to expand into more…

Microsoft has announced that in the 24 hours after the launch of Windows 10, more than 14 million people downloaded and installed the update on their devices. While there's still a long way to go before Windows 10 displaces Windows…

Hackers are uploading thousands of YouTube videos that show how to break into webcams with easily accessible software, says a report from Digital Citizen's Alliance. Despite these hacking tactics being illegal, 38 percent of the YouTube tutorials are approved for…

It’s easy to be intrigued by the Raspberry Pi. Since the unveiling of the souped-up Raspberry Pi 2 earlier this year, the ultra-affordable, credit card-sized computer has been startling skeptics with its surprising power and spurring innovation among DIY-savvy tinkerers…

Intel is gearing up to release their next-generation Skylake processors as early as next week, but before they've been able to release any official information, a set of benchmarks detailing the flagship Skylake CPU's performance have leaked onto the web.
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Take a look back at how Intel CPUs have progressed over the years. We're testing and comparing the original Core 2 Duo CPUs against the Nehalem-based Core i5-760 and Core i7-870, the Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500K and Core i7-2700K chips, and then to the current generation Haswell Celeron, Pentium, Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 parts.

Top Gear fans, rejoice! Amazon has signed Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May to host a new car show that’ll be available exclusively for Amazon Prime members. The contract calls for a minimum of three seasons, the company said…